Question: Are there different feelings of evil with respect to the Creator and with respect to the friend?

Answer: For our will to receive it makes no difference whether it is dealing with the Creator or with a friend. There is no distinction because it always forms its attitude from its own uncorrected vessels.

If a person directs his attention to something outside his will to receive, whether it is the Creator or the friend, the measure of correction and the magnitude and quality of the will to receive, determine his attitude toward that object. There is no difference.

Therefore, we can use the group and according to our reaction to it and according to our mutual relations with it, examine and critically analyze our will to receive, demand correction, and carry them out. After all, if something has a direction aimed outside the will to receive and stands beyond it, then it is the same with respect to the group and with respect to the Creator.

However, when it concerns my attitude toward myself, then of course it matters whether we are speaking about the group or about the Creator. What pleasures can the group give me compared to the Creator?

Everything depends on the degree on which I stand. It may be that I perform a restriction with respect to the Creator and say, “What is the Creator to me? What matters to me is the respect of the group.” Or, on the contrary, I may already restrict my attitude toward the group: “What do I need the group for? I want the divine.” But it is me who wants.

When a person tries to work without turning to himself at all, he discovers that if it is not for himself, but outside himself, then it does not matter to him for whose sake it is done or to whom exactly it will bring benefit. If it is outside of me, if neither at the beginning, nor during the action, nor afterward do I receive any response within myself, then what difference does it make which of a thousand possible factors I am now bestowing to if the results remain there and do not return to me?

What difference does it make what these factors are? From the perspective of the will to receive, I cannot analyze them; I have no connection with them. It turns out as though I throw something out of myself into space, and that is all.

But how do I evaluate my bestowal? Is it great or small? Of high quality? The fact is that I measure only the extent to which it is detached from me. As Rabash writes, there is an awareness of the greatness of the Creator before a person disconnects from himself, and there is an awareness of the greatness of the Creator after he disconnects from himself.

In the second case, I work in a state where I do not feel my acts of bestowal at all. I detach them from my “I” as though casting them into space.

Why do I do this? Because society gives me the sense of the importance of such actions. In other words, I acquire a feeling of the importance of something that is outside my will to receive, a Kli, an unfulfilled desire, and suddenly I feel that I must fill it by bestowing outward from myself. Thus, a certain desire outside of me becomes filled.

If a person works on this, he gradually passes into a state in which he can truly touch what it means to act not for himself, above reason. And this comes gradually.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”

Question: Can a person keep the Creator in mind in a state of greatest darkness, in a feeling of falling lower than anything there is?

Answer: One cannot maintain the sensation of the Creator’s presence or the sense of the goal in every state. And not just in every state; you can say in none because we learn from mistakes, From the negative, we come to know the positive.

This means that each time I must try and fail, try again and fail again. But that does not mean that my goal is to fail. My goal is to achieve success, and then a failure is not a failure at all, but a way of showing me another unfulfilled desire that I must fulfill.

Therefore, our path includes two kinds of states, two kinds of sensations, that are constantly in contradiction to one another. A person is always between them like between a hammer and an anvil.

One can hold on only with the help of the environment. I cannot imagine a person who truly perseveres and advances alone. Perhaps he studies. For example, recently, an Israeli man from Oslo called me; he has been living there for seventeen years: “I read your website, I participate in the Hebrew forum.” But he is not advancing! He does not feel that he lacks strength.

Baal HaSulam wrote about this hundreds of times: “A person does not feel a lack of strength when he falls and cannot emerge from the fall, and this means he is not advancing. The true sign of progress is when he begins to need an external force.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

Question: How can we neutralize things that accompany any of our purposeful actions during the preparation period: ego, the desire to receive, the need for self-respect, and pride? How do we choose the force of bestowal, the Creator?

Answer: I have a thousand desires, all sorts of aspirations. I do not even know what is inside of me. If I want to work as a good psychologist, I begin to delve into myself, analyze every factor and its mode of action, and look for an opportunity to influence or correct something.

Perhaps the fruit of these efforts will be a doctorate degree in psychology. Correction will not come from this because I am not correcting myself or seeing or “reading” myself with my mind. Only the light, which brings a change in my desire to receive, explains to me who I am in a different way each time.

Therefore, I do not need to immerse into myself, but to turn outward, that is, to constantly strive toward the Creator or the group. I must acquire these qualities, understanding that greatness lies within them.

To correct the desire to receive, we cannot stay in it. The light builds the vessel, and the light corrects the vessel. If we do not attract it, we will only get entangled in our animal nature and never break free from it. Then we will be scientists dealing with our animal part, like psychologists, and no more.

Even they know nothing about the inner part of a person, especially about those qualities that are a little closer to spirituality. In the field of human-level qualities, they have no understanding, and they admit it.

All our work is not about internal scrutiny: “Who or what am I?” It should be aimed at attaining the giver, the one and only, “there is none else besides Him,” the Good that Does good.

You need to constantly work outside yourself toward Him. That should be my main task. And all my desires to turn inside myself and explore myself are a real Klipa, a hindrance that comes as a result of the Creator enlarging my vessels, and each time they seem more important to me than attaining the Creator as the only one, the benevolent one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”

Question: When a person feels that pain is practically a part of the treatment, he rejoices. And yet, how can he cope with the pain? How can he prevent it from negatively affecting him and how can one avoid impatience and irritability?

Answer: Let us say a person feels pain. When he connects it to the cause, to the Creator, it sweetens his suffering because he sees that there is a cause. Then he already understands that the Creator, of course, has a good intention in sending him this pain.

This is true for the inanimate level of holiness. However, if I do not move on to the next stage, then I am not advancing. I have certainly completed one stage; I have connected the pain to its source.

But now I need to take the next step. Why did He send it to me? Now, I have to sort of bring that pain back and work with it like with an empty vessel that needs to be corrected. Then I already treat it as a sign showing me where I need to change myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”